The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-18
DAKOTA.

Dakota has more post-offices that Massa~
chusetts or about dozen other States
Governor Church recently removed three
| of the Trustees of the Yankton asylum,
charging negligence and improper disbHrs-
ment of money.
In response to an inquiry upon the sub
| ject from Dakota, Commissioner Sparks has
written that purchasers of railroad indem-
nifty lands restored to the Government are
entitled to do the same.
| G. Davis, prominent citizen of Parker,
died very suddenly of heart-disease the
| other night He moved there year ago
| from Wisconsin.
| The house. contents and two small chill
| dren of Eugene Kelly, ten miles north of
| Iroquois burned up the other morning.
| The Dakota land offices will pay an aggre-
gate salary list to registers and receivers
alone of 500, 900 the present year. Every
one of the ten offices reaches the maximum
salary figure of So, 900.
w. H. Phelps, of Sioux Falls, brother of
Minister Phelps, of England, though
seventy-eight years DID, has just opened
new tailor-shop.
James e. Jenkins, the new Adiutant-Geal-
eral of Dakota, is native of New York.
The recent burning of the Government
school building at the Santee Agency
throws a large number of Indian children
| out of school.
The Duluth, Milbank & Southwestern is a
new project formed at Milbank to build
from Morris, Mimi, via Big Stone City and
Mlbank to Sioux Falls.
pressed brick company at Yankton is
turning out twenty-five thousand brick per
day by artesian water power
The monthly expense account of the:
mines operated in the neighborhood trib--
utary directly or indirectly to Deadwood is.
100000
South Dakota has 1877 Methodist circuits
and 1881 members of that church.
A terrible prairie fire sweet Coteaux the
| other night, destroying thousands of dol
lars worth of property
Commissioner of immigration Mcclure
gives notice that his office will hereafter be
at Pierre instead of Bismarck.
MINNESOTA.
The partly completed Mortimer apart
ment house at Minneapolis, eight stories
high, with three residences adjoining, was
burned early the other morning. Total loss,
$115, 600; insurance, $98, 900
The Northern Pacific Elevator Company's
warehouse at Muskoda was burned few
days ago with three thousand bushels Of
wheat; insured.
Governor McGill has issued proclamation
fixing Thursday, November "a, as a day OF
Thanksgiving.
State Auditor Braden recently sold at aIc-
| ton at the county auditors office two mil
| lion feet of pine stumpage at So rs per
| Thousand, Jno. Mckinley, of Duluth, being
| the highest bidder The timber is in town
| ship 3D. range Ia. near the Iron Ridge rail
road. Pine men from all parts OF the State
were in attendance The price was consid-
| cred high.
Children set Anton Rusts barn at ST Pc
ter on fire the other day. and his barn, corn
crib, the old Swedish church and barn be-
longing thereto were destroyed
The city of Duluth recently arrested f. 4.
Langlois for selling fur goods without a
license A test case was made and Langlois
was discharged
At large meeting Of prominent citizens
of Minneapolis the other night fifty leading
men were appointed go to Washington
and present before the Republican National
Committee the claims of Minneapolis as the
proper place to hold the next Republican
National convention A guaranty fund Of
$40, 900 was raised at the meeting.
Extensive prairie fires recently swept
Lyon County, doing much damage, espe-
cially to stacked hay and unthrashed grain.
The loss in the county would be thousands
of dollars
K. s. Payne, leading member of the firm
of K. S. Payne Co., of Brainerd, left town
few days ago with about $1,000 of the
firms money. The firm had been reorgan-
lied
Judge John NJ Berry, of the State .Su-
preme Court died at Minneapolis the other
morning, aged sixty years.
The building and contents of E A Leach's
sash and blind factory at Faribault was TO-
tally destroyed by fire the other evening
Loss, 1000: insurance, So, O00
The Sisters of Mercy recently sold the,r
hospital at South Minneapolis at a loss of
$4,000
Major A. n. Reip, of Duluth, has gone to
Washington, where he will hereafter reside.
He recently secured divorce from his wife
and gave her 100000
Isaac n Cardozo, who died at 81 Pan a
few days ago, was senior United States CON-
missioner. He was born at Richmond, Va,
in 1920, and was appointed to his position
by judge Nelson in 1893.